Miss Etienne-Mona-Lisa-Cunégonde-Silly Goose of the Constitutionnel, indignate, choking and over-ornate at the performance of Anthony in which the mischievous Dumas had the indecency of scoffing at the noble family Silly Goose of the Constitutionnel..., plate 385
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 31.1 × 24.5 cm (12 1/4 × 9 11/16 in.); Sheet: 26.2 × 33.9 cm (10 3/8 × 13 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- lithograph
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)lithograph
About
Here Daumier targeted the bourgeois newspaper Le Constitutionnel, a mouthpiece for the monarch run by Louis Philippe’s deputy Charles-Guillaume Étienne. The paper is portrayed as a corpulent woman with a gourd-like head and a face belonging to Étienne. Pear-shaped globules hang from her ears, and an imperialistic profile of Louis Philippe nestles between her ample breasts.
